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  3. Black History Month: Prominent writers

Black History Month: Prominent writers

Feb 1, 2026

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  • Portrait of Ta Nehisi Ta Nehisi Coates writer 2018 Renaud MONFOURNY Leextra via opale photo RECORD DATE NOT STATED Copyright: x RenaudxMONFOURNY Leextraxviaxopale.photox

    Portrait of Ta Nehisi Ta Nehisi Coates writer 2018 Renaud MONFOURNY Leextra via opale photo RECORD DATE NOT STATED Copyright: x RenaudxMONFOURNY Leextraxviaxopale.photox

  • Portrait of Ta Nehisi Ta Nehisi Coates writer 2018 Renaud MONFOURNY Leextra via opale photo RECORD DATE NOT STATED Copyright: x RenaudxMONFOURNY Leextraxviaxopale.photox

    Portrait of Ta Nehisi Ta Nehisi Coates writer 2018 Renaud MONFOURNY Leextra via opale photo RECORD DATE NOT STATED Copyright: x RenaudxMONFOURNY Leextraxviaxopale.photox

  • Portrait of Ngugi wa Thiong o born James Ngugi 05 04 2018 Basso CANNARSA Opale photo RECORD DATE NOT STATED Copyright: x BassoxCANNARSA Opale.photox !ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT!

    Portrait of Ngugi wa Thiong o born James Ngugi 05 04 2018 Basso CANNARSA Opale photo RECORD DATE NOT STATED Copyright: x BassoxCANNARSA Opale.photox !ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT!

  • Portrait of Ngugi wa Thiong o born James Ngugi 17 05 2015 Basso CANNARSA Opale photo RECORD DATE NOT STATED Copyright: x BassoxCannarsa Opale.photox !ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT!

    Portrait of Ngugi wa Thiong o born James Ngugi 17 05 2015 Basso CANNARSA Opale photo RECORD DATE NOT STATED Copyright: x BassoxCannarsa Opale.photox !ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT!

  • WALCOTT Derek Date 20120413 Basso Cannarsa Opale photo RECORD DATE NOT STATED Copyright: x BassoxCannarsa Opale.photox !ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT!

    WALCOTT Derek Date 20120413 Basso Cannarsa Opale photo RECORD DATE NOT STATED Copyright: x BassoxCannarsa Opale.photox !ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT!

  • Derek WALCOTT Date 20030601 Basso Cannarsa Opale photo RECORD DATE NOT STATED Copyright: x BassoxCannarsa Opale.photox

    Derek WALCOTT Date 20030601 Basso Cannarsa Opale photo RECORD DATE NOT STATED Copyright: x BassoxCannarsa Opale.photox

  • Author Book reviewer Columnist Publisher Poet Publisher Writer 1 January 1951 is it in Rome arrived, at the Transit, the Photo of famous American Writer Richard Wright shows Mr Richard Wright in a dimer Iva Italian Restaurant in Rome Copyright: xUnitedxArchivesx xkpaxKeystonex 19510101_baf_k09_013

    Author Book reviewer Columnist Publisher Poet Publisher Writer 1 January 1951 is it in Rome arrived, at the Transit, the Photo of famous American Writer Richard Wright shows Mr Richard Wright in a dimer Iva Italian Restaurant in Rome Copyright: xUnitedxArchivesx xkpaxKeystonex 19510101_baf_k09_013

  • RICHARD WRIGHT (1908-1960). American writer. Photographed in his study by Gordon Parks, 1943. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0908787

    RICHARD WRIGHT (1908-1960). American writer. Photographed in his study by Gordon Parks, 1943. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0908787

  • CLAUDE McKAY (1890-1948). American (Jamaican-born) writer. Photograph, c1920. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0268869

    CLAUDE McKAY (1890-1948). American (Jamaican-born) writer. Photograph, c1920. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0268869

  • RALPH ELLISON (1914-1994). American writer. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0036361

    RALPH ELLISON (1914-1994). American writer. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0036361

  • CLAUDE MCKAY (1890-1948). American (Jamaican-born) writer. Photograph, c1930, by James Latimer Allen. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0034217

    CLAUDE MCKAY (1890-1948). American (Jamaican-born) writer. Photograph, c1930, by James Latimer Allen. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0034217

  • RALPH ELLISON (1914-1994). American writer. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0006929

    RALPH ELLISON (1914-1994). American writer. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0006929

  • USSR. October 9, 1958. W.E.B. Du Bois, American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, member of the World Peace Council. Nikolai Rakhmanov TASS 14803770

    USSR. October 9, 1958. W.E.B. Du Bois, American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, member of the World Peace Council. Nikolai Rakhmanov TASS 14803770

  • Zora Neale Hurston at Federal Writer s Project booth at New York Times Book Fair. 1937. Portraits, Photographs. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. Hurston, Zora Neale, African American authors, Women anthropologists, Federal Writers Project Copyright: xpiemagsx nyplsipie24092022-13617 !ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT!

    Zora Neale Hurston at Federal Writer s Project booth at New York Times Book Fair. 1937. Portraits, Photographs. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. Hurston, Zora Neale, African American authors, Women anthropologists, Federal Writers Project Copyright: xpiemagsx nyplsipie24092022-13617 !ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT!

  • Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois _ _ 1062_05_l_-6819-

    Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois _ _ 1062_05_l_-6819-

  • IMAGO ICONS: Maya Angelou MAYA ANGELOU AND STILL I RISE, Maya Angelou, 2016. American Masters courtesy Everett Collection Courtesy Everett Collection !ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! PUBLICATIONXNOTxINxCANxCHNxFRAxITAxJPNxNORxPOLxRUSxESPxUKxUSA Copyright: xCourtesyxEverettxCollectionx MCDMAAN EC238

    IMAGO ICONS: Maya Angelou MAYA ANGELOU AND STILL I RISE, Maya Angelou, 2016. American Masters courtesy Everett Collection Courtesy Everett Collection !ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! PUBLICATIONXNOTxINxCANxCHNxFRAxITAxJPNxNORxPOLxRUSxESPxUKxUSA Copyright: xCourtesyxEverettxCollectionx MCDMAAN EC238

  • IMAGO ICONS: Maya Angelou GEORGIA, GEORGIA, writer Maya Angelou, 1972 Courtesy Everett Collection PUBLICATIONXNOTxINxCANxCHNxFRAxITAxJPNxNORxPOLxRUSxESPxUKxUSA Copyright: xCourtesyxEverettxCollectionx MBDGEGE EC003

    IMAGO ICONS: Maya Angelou GEORGIA, GEORGIA, writer Maya Angelou, 1972 Courtesy Everett Collection PUBLICATIONXNOTxINxCANxCHNxFRAxITAxJPNxNORxPOLxRUSxESPxUKxUSA Copyright: xCourtesyxEverettxCollectionx MBDGEGE EC003

  • US Civil Rights. From left: Charlton Heston, Harry Belafonte, James Baldwin, Marlon Brando, civil rights march, Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C., August, 1963. Courtesy Everett Collection PUBLICATIONXNOTxINxCANxCHNxFRAxITAxJPNxNORxPOLxRUSxESPxUKxUSA Copyright: xCourtesyxEverettxCollectionx PBDJABA EC003

    US Civil Rights. From left: Charlton Heston, Harry Belafonte, James Baldwin, Marlon Brando, civil rights march, Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C., August, 1963. Courtesy Everett Collection PUBLICATIONXNOTxINxCANxCHNxFRAxITAxJPNxNORxPOLxRUSxESPxUKxUSA Copyright: xCourtesyxEverettxCollectionx PBDJABA EC003

  • Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) incorporated African American culture and folk ways into her plays, stories, novels. Courtesy Everett Collection PUBLICATIONXNOTxINxCANxCHNxFRAxITAxJPNxNORxPOLxRUSxESPxUKxUSA Copyright: xCourtesyxEverettxCollectionx HISL003 EC263

    Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) incorporated African American culture and folk ways into her plays, stories, novels. Courtesy Everett Collection PUBLICATIONXNOTxINxCANxCHNxFRAxITAxJPNxNORxPOLxRUSxESPxUKxUSA Copyright: xCourtesyxEverettxCollectionx HISL003 EC263

  • Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), African American author and member of the Harlem Renaissance. Hurston based her work on African American life in the rural South. Portrait by Carl Van Vechten, 1938. Courtesy Everett Collection PUBLICATIONXNOTxINxCANxCHNxFRAxITAxJPNxNORxPOLxRUSxESPxUKxUSA Copyright: xCourtesyxEverettxCollectionx HISL002 EC240

    Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), African American author and member of the Harlem Renaissance. Hurston based her work on African American life in the rural South. Portrait by Carl Van Vechten, 1938. Courtesy Everett Collection PUBLICATIONXNOTxINxCANxCHNxFRAxITAxJPNxNORxPOLxRUSxESPxUKxUSA Copyright: xCourtesyxEverettxCollectionx HISL002 EC240

  • October 27, 2016, New York, NY, USA: The writer Toni Morrison (USA), October 27, 2016. Photograph © PEN America. New York USA - ZUMAs113 20161027_zaf_s113_001 Copyright: xBeowulfxSheehanx

    October 27, 2016, New York, NY, USA: The writer Toni Morrison (USA), October 27, 2016. Photograph © PEN America. New York USA - ZUMAs113 20161027_zaf_s113_001 Copyright: xBeowulfxSheehanx

  • Mar 21, 2013 - FILE - CHINUA ACHEBE born Albert Chinualumogu Achebe, November 16 1930 - March 21, 2013, has died at 82 following a brief illness. Achebe was a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic. He was best known for his first novel and magnum opus, Things Fall Apart (1958), which dealt with the impact of colonialism in Africa, which sold more than 10 million copies. Achebe had been living in the US since 1990 following injuries from a car crash that left him paralyzed from the waist down. PICTURED: Feb 26, 2008 - New York, New York, U.S. - Writer Chinua Achebe (Nigeria USA). - ZUMAb17_ 20080226_mar_b17_286

    Mar 21, 2013 - FILE - CHINUA ACHEBE born Albert Chinualumogu Achebe, November 16 1930 - March 21, 2013, has died at 82 following a brief illness. Achebe was a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic. He was best known for his first novel and magnum opus, Things Fall Apart (1958), which dealt with the impact of colonialism in Africa, which sold more than 10 million copies. Achebe had been living in the US since 1990 following injuries from a car crash that left him paralyzed from the waist down. PICTURED: Feb 26, 2008 - New York, New York, U.S. - Writer Chinua Achebe (Nigeria USA). - ZUMAb17_ 20080226_mar_b17_286

  • Photograph of Langston Hughes. Writer, poet, social activist and playwright. Unknown WHA !ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright: WHA UnitedArchivesWHA_4276_TR

    Photograph of Langston Hughes. Writer, poet, social activist and playwright. Unknown WHA !ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright: WHA UnitedArchivesWHA_4276_TR

  • Mar 21, 2013 - FILE - CHINUA ACHEBE born Albert Chinualumogu Achebe, November 16 1930 - March 21, 2013, has died at 82 following a brief illness. Achebe was a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic. He was best known for his first novel and magnum opus, Things Fall Apart (1958), which dealt with the impact of colonialism in Africa, which sold more than 10 million copies. Achebe had been living in the US since 1990 following injuries from a car crash that left him paralyzed from the waist down. PICTURED: May 21, 1970; London - Prominent Igbo (Ibo) writer, Chinua Achebe, during an interview in a hotel room. London United Kingdom - ZUMAk09

    Mar 21, 2013 - FILE - CHINUA ACHEBE born Albert Chinualumogu Achebe, November 16 1930 - March 21, 2013, has died at 82 following a brief illness. Achebe was a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic. He was best known for his first novel and magnum opus, Things Fall Apart (1958), which dealt with the impact of colonialism in Africa, which sold more than 10 million copies. Achebe had been living in the US since 1990 following injuries from a car crash that left him paralyzed from the waist down. PICTURED: May 21, 1970; London - Prominent Igbo (Ibo) writer, Chinua Achebe, during an interview in a hotel room. London United Kingdom - ZUMAk09

  • 5 December 2005. Professor Chinua Achebe (L), Nigerian author, recieves an honourary doctorate at the University of Cape Town. Behind him is former South African president Nelson Mandela. Gallo000016054

    5 December 2005. Professor Chinua Achebe (L), Nigerian author, recieves an honourary doctorate at the University of Cape Town. Behind him is former South African president Nelson Mandela. Gallo000016054

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